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Materialists, the highly-anticipated second film written and directed by Playwriting alum Celine Song ’14, will enjoy its theatrical release on June 13, 2025.
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Four Columbia theatre-makers were honored with 2025 Drama League Awards as producers for Oh! Mary and Sunset Boulevard.
Playwriting alum Clarence Coo ’10 was presented with the Horton Foote Award at the Dramatists Guild’s annual awards ceremony on April 29, 2025, at the Broadway restaurant Green Fig.
Through her work, School of the Arts playwright Amalia Oliva Rojas gives voice to immigrants and women of color.
Acting alum Daniel Irizarry ’04 directs and performs in Class Dismissed at La MaMa Experimental Theatre Club.
Professor of Theatre and Playwriting Concentration Head David Henry Hwang will receive the Dramatists Guild’s 2025 Lifetime Achievement Award.
Writing alum Brysen Boyd ’20 and Theatre alum Fernando Buzhar Segall ’24 will have work featured in the 2025 Valdez Theatre Conference in Anchorage, Alaska.
Theatre Acting alum Kim Katzberg ’09 has locked in a Mercury Store Project Weeks Residency from May 12 to May 16, 2025.
Sam Grabiner ’21 won the 2025 Olivier Award for Best New Production in an Affiliate Theatre for his play Boys on the Verge of Tears. The highest award in British theatre comes after his 2024 win for best debut at the Stage Awards.
Associate Professor and Co-Concentration Head of the Writing for Film and Television concentration Blair Singer has secured a script commitment at Fox for a television adaptation of the bestselling novel Cold Blooded Liar by Karen Rose. Singer will write and executive produce the project.
The Tony Award winning Crossroads Theatre Company has partnered with Professor Lynn Nottage and Columbia University School of the Arts to found the annual Crossroads Genesis Prize for Playwriting Excellence.
